PsySTAR at University of Glasgow

Professor Jill Pell 

Henry Mechan Professor of Public Health
MD, FFPHM, FESC
Email Jill.Pell@glasgow.ac.uk  
Telephone 0141 330-3239
Link to CV

Professor Pell is the Henry Mechan Professor of Public Health at the University of Glasgow and an Honorary Consultant in Public Health in Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board. She was Professor of Epidemiology at the British Heart Foundation Cardiovascular Research Centre in Glasgow before moving to her current Chair. She chairs the Population Health Science Group of the Medical Research Council and is a member of the Medical Research Council’s Strategy Board. She is a member of the Faculty of Public Health’s Research Committee, a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She is a member of the CLEAN collaboration; a pan-Scotland group charged with evaluating the impact of the Scottish smoke-free legislation. She was the Principal Investigator on a number of CLEAN studies including studies evaluating the impact on cardiovascular and respiratory disease. The former study was voted, by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association, to be the most important research advance of 2008.